142 Fun Facts About Mean Girls

In Mean Girls, what work kept Cady's parents in Africa before she started high school?

Research zoologists, both of them: Cady was taught at home by her mother until 16, and the family only came back when that same mother was offered a university post.

In Mean Girls, Regina tells Cady 'Get in, loser, we're going' to do what?

Shopping: 'Get in, loser. We're going shopping,' Regina calls from her car, and the Plastics drive a dazzled Cady off to the mall.

What does Damian shout at the tearful stranger during the Mean Girls gym assembly?

'She doesn't even go here!' is right: asked whether she attends the school, the girl admits she doesn't, says she just has a lot of feelings, and is sent home.

What day of the week do The Plastics wear pink?

Wednesday is the day: Karen delivers 'On Wednesdays, we wear pink' while inviting Cady to lunch, and fans now wear pink to mark the film's unofficial holiday.

Which actress plays Regina George in the 2004 film Mean Girls?

Rachel McAdams first read for Cady; she was judged a bit too old for the heroine, and the director liked how nervous she made her teenage co-star.

What do The Plastics call the scrapbook of gossip and insults they keep about classmates and teachers?

The Burn Book is a scrapbook filled with rumors, secrets, and insults about students and teachers at North Shore High. Its exposure is a major plot catalyst in the film.

What non-fiction book served as the source material for the Mean Girls screenplay?

Queen Bees and Wannabes is Rosalind Wiseman's guide for parents of teenage girls; it has no plot, so Tina Fey, who had read about the author in a newspaper, wrote the story from scratch.

Which Plastic keeps trying to make her own invented slang word catch on?

Lacey Chabert's Gretchen keeps insisting things are 'so fetch' until Regina snaps: 'Stop trying to make fetch happen! It's not going to happen!'

What role does Tina Fey play in the 2004 Mean Girls film?

Ms. Norbury, the calculus teacher, is newly divorced and working three jobs, details Cady twists into a nasty rumour once the teacher starts pushing her to try harder.

In Mean Girls, what is Gretchen Wieners' father said to have invented?

Toaster Strudel made the Wieners family 'totally rich', and Gretchen invokes 'my father, the inventor of Toaster Strudel' when the principal questions her.

Which actor plays Damian in the 2004 film Mean Girls?

Daniel Franzese plays the friend Janis fondly calls 'almost too gay to function', a line that turns cruel once Cady repeats it and it lands in the Burn Book.

What academic competition does Cady join at North Shore High?

Mathletes it is, though Damian and the Plastics each warn her that joining is 'social suicide'; the captain wants her because a girl on the team doubles its funding.

Who directed the 2004 Mean Girls film?

Mark Waters had just directed Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday, the film that made the producers want her for Mean Girls in the first place.

In Mean Girls, the local mall reminds Cady of what back home in Africa?

The watering hole 'when the animals are in heat', Cady says of Old Orchard Mall, one of many times she measures high school against the animal world.

Which actress plays Karen Smith, the least intelligent member of The Plastics?

Amanda Seyfried had read for Regina; the producers liked her but decided she was 'more correct for Karen', so she made her film debut as the dim one.

What does Regina George's mother famously call herself?

'I'm not like a regular mom, I'm a cool mom,' Mrs. George insists while telling the girls there are no rules in her house.

In Mean Girls, what does Cady call her habit of blurting out things she shouldn't say?

Word vomit makes Cady blurt to Aaron that Regina is cheating on him, and at her own party it turns into actual vomit.

Which song do the Plastics dance to at the winter talent show in the 2004 Mean Girls?

Jingle Bell Rock cuts out mid-routine, so Cady keeps singing and the audience joins in; the stage musical swapped it for an original number, 'Rockin' Around the Pole'.

What happens to Regina George after she storms out of the gym assembly?

She gets hit by a bus while ranting at Cady and fractures her spine, and the school is soon whispering that Cady pushed her.

What is Karen Smith's self-described 'fifth sense'?

Her breasts can tell when it will rain, Karen claims, 'like I have ESPN or something', then admits they can really only tell when it is already raining.

What does Cady wear to the Halloween party, unaware of its unwritten dress code?

An 'ex-wife' zombie bride is Cady's idea of a scary costume; nobody told her that in Girl World Halloween is the one night a girl can dress provocatively and not be judged for it.

Which North Shore High staff member does the Burn Book expose for kissing two students?

Coach Carr, the gym teacher who lectures his health class against sex, is named in the book for making out with two students and promptly flees school property.

What does Cady give Regina, claiming it will help her lose weight when it does the opposite?

Kalteen bars are nutrition bars Cady's mother handed out in Africa to help underweight children gain weight; Cady tells Regina they burn up all her carbs.

Who plays the school principal, Mr. Duvall?

Tim Meadows plays Mr. Duvall, the beleaguered school principal who struggles to maintain order during the Burn Book crisis. Meadows was a longtime SNL cast member alongside Tina Fey.

Fans mark Mean Girls Day on which date, the day Aaron asks Cady what day it is?

October 3rd comes from Cady's narration, 'On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was'; fans began marking it online around 2012, and the cast has since reunited on it for good causes.

Made for about $17 million, the 2004 Mean Girls grossed roughly how much worldwide?

$130 million worldwide, and not only from teenage girls: the studio's exit polls found over 80% of men in their thirties rated it highly, and the studio itself had expected a smaller opening.

After the Burn Book riot in Mean Girls, what does Principal Duvall say he ought to cancel?

Spring Fling survives for a practical reason: 'I'm not gonna do that, because we've already paid the DJ,' the principal admits in the same breath.

What sport does Regina George take up by the end of the 2004 Mean Girls?

Lacrosse gives her anger somewhere to go: Cady reports that she was taught to channel her rage into sports, and that the jock girls were not afraid of her.

Tina Fey named Cady Heron, the heroine of Mean Girls, after which person in her own life?

Her college roommate, Cady Garey, shared a bare University of Virginia apartment with Fey, who said she used real names when writing 'because it's just easier'.

Which SNL star plays Regina's mother, Mrs. George, in the 2004 Mean Girls?

Amy Poehler got a part Tina Fey had written for her, but the director says he had to fight for it: the studio feared too many SNL faces would make it feel like an SNL film.

Which math-team captain raps at the winter talent show in Mean Girls?

Kevin Gnapoor, 'the G is silent', raps as Kevin G with his crew, the Power of Three, until he is cut off with 'Thank you, Kevin, that's enough.'

Although set in suburban Chicago, the 2004 Mean Girls was mostly shot in which city?

Toronto doubled for suburban Chicago, with scenes shot around the University of Toronto and inside its Convocation Hall; one actor, cast at the last minute, was told to pack a bag and fly there the next day.

In Mean Girls, which food does a dieting Regina ask Cady about, wondering if it is a carb?

'Is butter a carb?' Regina asks, and Cady, who is secretly sabotaging her diet, answers with a flat 'Yes'.

What does Cady do with her crown as queen of the school dance?

Breaks it up and shares the pieces: calling the tiara 'just plastic', Cady tosses bits to friends and rivals alike, including one for Regina, who 'still looks like a rock star'.

Which Mean Girls character famously receives four candy cane grams in class?

Glen Coco was named after a real film editor, a friend of Tina Fey's older brother; she imagines it is 'a pain in the butt' for him now that the line is printed on T-shirts.

In Mean Girls, what does the gym teacher's health class warn will happen if you have sex?

You get pregnant and die, runs the gym teacher's entire lesson, after which he tells the class, 'OK, everybody take some rubbers.'

How does Cady try to get closer to Aaron Samuels in class?

She pretends to be bad at math so that Aaron will tutor her, and sabotages her work so thoroughly that she ends up genuinely failing calculus.

In Mean Girls, what does Cady's Burn Book entry falsely accuse her math teacher of?

Selling drugs: Cady twisted the teacher's remark that she is a 'pusher', someone who pushes people to do better, and the lie ends with police searching the teacher's house.

What does the teacher make the junior girls do before each trust fall in Mean Girls?

Apologize to each other, out loud, before falling back into the crowd; Gretchen's effort is to be sorry that people are so jealous of her popularity.

What year did the Mean Girls Broadway musical officially open?

The musical opened at the August Wilson Theatre on April 8, 2018 after pre-Broadway tryouts in Washington, D.C., and went on to earn twelve Tony nominations.

Jeff Richmond, composer of the Mean Girls musical, earlier wrote the music for which NBC sitcom?

30 Rock was the sitcom his wife, Tina Fey, wrote and starred in; she also wrote the musical's book, so the Broadway show reunited the couple behind it.

In what year was the Mean Girls musical film adaptation released?

The musical film reached theatres in January 2024 after originally being planned as a Paramount+ streaming release.

Who plays Regina George in the 2024 Mean Girls musical film?

Rapp carried the part into the 2024 film from the Broadway stage, where she had already played Regina.

Which actress plays Cady Heron in the 2024 Mean Girls musical film?

Angourie Rice's first number is 'What Ifs', a new song co-written by the actress playing Regina to replace Cady's introductory song from the stage show.

Who plays Janis in the 2024 Mean Girls musical film?

Auli'i Cravalho, the voice of Disney's Moana, plays a Janis the film renamed: Ian in 2004 and Sarkisian on stage, she is now Janis ʻImiʻike.

Which accessory has Gretchen been forbidden to wear because Regina declared it 'her thing'?

Hoop earrings were declared 'her thing' two years earlier, so Gretchen had to pretend not to like the white-gold hoops her parents gave her for Hanukkah.

What happens to a Plastic who breaks the clique's dress rules?

They can't sit with the group at lunch, and the rule finally catches Regina herself when she turns up in sweatpants on a Monday.

Which future Gossip Girl star was the casting director's first choice to play Karen in Mean Girls?

Blake Lively, not yet known from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, reached the final tests as Karen before the filmmakers told the casting director to keep looking.

What song does Damian perform during the Winter Talent Show?

Beautiful by Christina Aguilera earns Damian a shoe in the face from someone in the audience, which he promptly hurls straight back.

Which SNL boss produced the 2004 film through his company Broadway Video?

Michaels took the idea to Paramount, which bought the rights to Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction book. The film ended up with four SNL veterans in the cast.

Mean Girls is set in Illinois, but Tina Fey drew on her own school days in which state?

Pennsylvania: Fey grew up in Upper Darby, outside Philadelphia, and blended memories of its high school with her impressions of two schools north of Chicago.

The 2004 Mean Girls is set in which Chicago suburb?

Evanston is home to Northwestern University, where Cady's mother has been offered tenure, which is why the family leaves Africa for Illinois.

What was the original working title of the 2004 Mean Girls script?

Homeschooled was still the title when the director first read it; the idea, he recalled, was that only someone taught at home all her life would know nothing of high-school girl politics.

Which Janis Ian hit plays in Mean Girls while the girls fight at Regina's house?

At Seventeen was sung by the real Janis Ian on the very first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975, and Tina Fey named the film's Janis after her.

Tina Fey cast the actor who plays Aaron in Mean Girls partly because he resembled which SNL co-star?

Jimmy Fallon it is: the actor says Fey told him the story is 'exactly 100 percent true', though he had never actually met his lookalike.

In Mean Girls, which actor's name does Damian shriek at a short girl, adding 'I love your work'?

Danny DeVito gets the shout-out when a short girl orders Damian out of the bathroom where he, Janis and Cady are plotting against Regina.

Which singer's 2009 hit opens with her quoting a Regina line from Mean Girls?

Mariah Carey opens 'Obsessed' with Regina's 'Why are you so obsessed with me?'; her then-husband said the film gave the song its concept, and Tina Fey later quizzed her on Mean Girls for Billboard.

Which Irish leader quoted the Mean Girls line 'the limit does not exist' in a 2020 COVID-19 briefing?

Leo Varadkar was answering a dare: after he quoted Samwise Gamgee in an earlier briefing, actor Sean Astin bet him '50 quid' to quote Mean Girls in his next speech.

Which pop star's record-breaking 2018 music video paid homage to Mean Girls and three other teen comedies?

Ariana Grande's 'Thank U, Next' video broke YouTube's 24-hour viewing record and brought back two of the film's actors, including the one who played Aaron.

What was the title of the 2018 recipe book by the actor who played Aaron in Mean Girls?

The Burn Cookbook: Real Recipes to Feed Your Inner Plastic puns on the film's Burn Book; a year later its author followed it with a limited-edition Mean Girls rosé.

Which doll brand released Cady and the Plastics as 20th-anniversary limited editions?

Bratz got the licence, even though in the film Cady calls Regina 'the Barbie doll I never had'; the four dolls were released in stages in autumn 2024.

Which retailer's 2023 holiday campaign reunited much of the original Mean Girls cast as adults?

Walmart's Black Friday ads brought back three of the four Plastics as grown-ups, with Damian and Kevin G alongside; only the actress who played Regina was missing.

The 2011 sequel Mean Girls 2 premiered on which cable channel?

ABC Family drew 3.4 million viewers for the premiere, the season's most-watched TV movie among 12-to-34s, even though Tina Fey had turned down the chance to write it.

Mean Girls 2 star Meaghan Martin was best known for which Disney Channel musical?

Camp Rock and its sequel made Martin familiar as Tess Tyler; Mean Girls 2 cast her as Jo, a mechanic's daughter who goes to war with a new generation of Plastics.

In Mean Girls, why does a classmate buy army pants and flip-flops?

She saw Cady wearing them, proof of what Cady calls being 'like being famous': once she joins the Plastics, classmates copy whatever she puts on.

In Mean Girls, Gretchen's classroom rant about Regina is disguised as an essay on which Shakespeare play?

Julius Caesar gives her the cover: 'Brutus is just as cute as Caesar,' she fumes, ending with 'We should totally just stab Caesar!'

Nell Benjamin, lyricist of the Mean Girls musical, had earlier co-written which other film-to-stage hit?

Legally Blonde was written with her husband, composer Laurence O'Keefe; for Mean Girls she instead set her lyrics to music by Tina Fey's husband.

Who directed and choreographed the original Broadway production?

He is also known for The Book of Mormon and Aladdin. The production had recouped its capitalization by January 2020.

Which future Twilight star was considered for Cady while Lindsay Lohan was still set to play Regina?

Kristen Stewart, then known as Jodie Foster's daughter in Panic Room, was on the list with Michelle Trachtenberg and Mae Whitman before Lohan agreed to play Cady herself.

The Mean Girls musical earned twelve Tony nominations in 2018; how did it fare on the night?

It won nothing: The Band's Visit took ten Tonys, Best Musical among them, though Tina Fey's book did win the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards.

Which pop singer took over the role of Cady in the Mean Girls musical on Broadway?

Sabrina Carpenter made her Broadway debut in the part on March 10, 2020, for an announced three-month run; Broadway shut down that same week and the show never reopened.

Why did Mary Elizabeth Winstead never audition for Gretchen in Mean Girls?

Her mother disliked the script: she read her daughter's offers with her, found this one's humour too raunchy, and ruled out the audition.

What is Karen dressed as at the Halloween party in Mean Girls?

A mouse, she explains, pointing at her ears; as Cady's narration puts it, the hard-core girls just wear lingerie and some form of animal ears.

In which city did the Mean Girls musical open at the Savoy Theatre in 2024?

London's West End saw it six years after Broadway, with the original director recreating his staging; the Savoy production then won Best New Musical at the WhatsOnStage Awards.

In Mean Girls, Cady's math teacher has a second job a couple of nights a week doing what?

Bartending: she lets it slip when Cady and friends catch her at the mall, first joking that she is only there with her boyfriend.

Although set in Illinois, the 2024 Mean Girls was shot at a former high school in which state?

New Jersey supplied the school: the closed Mater Dei High in Middletown was turned into North Shore High for a shoot that wrapped in April 2023.

Which Mad Men star plays the gym teacher in the 2024 Mean Girls?

Jon Hamm had done the job for real: before Mad Men made his name, he went back to his old Missouri high school to teach drama.

What surprise cameo does Lindsay Lohan make in the 2024 Mean Girls?

A math contest moderator: the cameo stayed a surprise until the premiere, and it reportedly earned Lohan about $500,000 for half a day's work.

Which Office alum plays Cady's mother in the 2024 Mean Girls?

Jenna Fischer plays a single mother here: the 2024 film drops Cady's father, so only Ms. Heron brings her daughter back to the United States.

Which Megan Thee Stallion collaboration plays over the end credits of the 2024 Mean Girls?

Not My Fault was written in a single day off from tour by the actress playing Regina, who knew the film still lacked a song to close on.

The 2024 Mean Girls was originally planned to debut on which streaming service?

Paramount+ lost the premiere in September 2023, when the studio switched the film to cinemas; it then topped the US box office for three straight weekends.

In the 2024 Mean Girls, Avantika's Karen swaps the surname Smith for which one?

Shetty is an Indian surname, matching Avantika's own heritage; Karen is a Smith in both the 2004 film and the stage musical.

In the 2024 Mean Girls, from which country does Cady move back to the United States?

Kenya is named in the stage musical too, whereas the 2004 film never gets more specific than 'Africa', which a classmate adopts as her nickname.

Besides the crown, what does Cady win as queen of the school dance in Mean Girls?

Pancake house gift certificates, two of them, for Walker Brothers; when Aaron presents them at the dance, Janis swipes one, leaving him to announce just 'one gift certificate'.

In Mean Girls, what does Principal Duvall say came back over the summer?

His carpal tunnel is his summer news, offered after the math teacher answers that she got divorced; 'I win,' she says, and he agrees.

Which 2019 book retold the Plastics' story in the style of William Shakespeare?

Much Ado About Mean Girls is by Ian Doescher, who had already turned Star Wars into Shakespearean verse; a 2020 graphic novel, Senior Year, then carried the story on.

A cancelled 2010 Mean Girls video game, leaked online in 2021, was built for which handheld?

Nintendo DS owners never got it: the game was nearly finished when its publisher shelved it, and it only surfaced when a YouTuber was emailed a copy anonymously.

Who plays Gretchen Wieners in the 2004 Mean Girls?

Lacey Chabert was not the first choice: the casting director says the part was hard to fill, and Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens were among those who read for it.

Which actress plays Janis Ian in the 2004 Mean Girls?

Lizzy Caplan did not look the part as written, so she was made up to seem 'more gothic and bizarre'; the director found her too funny not to cast.

Who plays Aaron Samuels in the 2004 Mean Girls?

Jonathan Bennett was flown in the night before shooting after the first Aaron was fired following a table read; Penn Badgley and Jared Padalecki had auditioned for the part.

Which clique does Gretchen join once the Plastics disband in the 2004 Mean Girls?

The Cool Asians take her in, giving her, in Cady's words, someone new to serve; Karen, meanwhile, ends up reading the school's morning weather.

Which original Broadway cast member cameos as the French teacher in the 2024 Mean Girls?

Ashley Park earned a Tony nomination as the stage Gretchen; the film brings her back on the other side of the desk, as a teacher named Madame Park.

In the Mean Girls (2004) revenge plot, which product does Regina get in place of her face wash?

Foot cream was one of the sabotages Janis later confesses to the whole junior class. The others were weight-gain snack bars and turning Regina's best friends against her.

Where does new girl Cady Heron eat lunch alone on her first day of high school in Mean Girls?

A bathroom stall is her refuge after nobody will share a table. The next day Janis and Damian take her in and map out the school's cliques.

A 2013 White House tweet reused Regina's Mean Girls put-down, 'stop trying to make' which word 'happen'?

Fetch suited the photo, because the Obamas' dog Bo was holding a tennis ball. The borrowed line is one of the film's most quoted put-downs.

Which job of Cady Heron's parents kept the family overseas for years before Mean Girls begins?

Zoologists Chip and Betsy Heron home-schooled their only child while doing field research. The move home comes when Betsy accepts a university post in Illinois.

In Gretchen's Mean Girls (2004) rant about Regina, which Roman is 'just as cute as Caesar'?

Brutus is just as cute and just as smart as Caesar, Gretchen insists, before deciding 'we should totally just stab Caesar!' She is really fuming about Regina bossing everybody around.

According to Damian in Mean Girls (2004), Gretchen's hair is so big because it is full of what?

Secrets are her currency: Janis introduces Gretchen as the girl who knows everybody's business and everything about everyone.

Which fast-food chain does Karen suggest to cheer up a freshly dumped Regina in Mean Girls (2004)?

Taco Bell is out, Regina wails, because she is on an all-carb diet. She storms off calling Karen stupid, a clip Mike Bloomberg later used in a campaign ad.

Mean Girls (2004) gossip claims Regina once met which actor on a plane and was told she was pretty?

John Stamos features in a montage of awed rumors about Regina. One girl even boasts that Regina punched her in the face, and that it was awesome.

For Mean Girls Day 2023, the whole 2004 film was released free in 23 clips on which app?

TikTok hosted the film in 23 parts, and #meangirlsday became one of the app's top trends that month. Fans mark the day each year by wearing pink.

Which pop star, feuding with Taylor Swift, tweeted about 'the Regina George in sheep's clothing'?

Katy Perry posted the jab after Swift told Rolling Stone about falling out with an unnamed star. Regina's name had become shorthand for a smiling bully.

The actress who plays Regina in Mean Girls starred the same year in which Nicholas Sparks romance?

The Notebook reached cinemas later in 2004, pairing her with Ryan Gosling as sweetheart Allie. Playing a school tyrant and a romantic lead in one year made her a star.

Which event of Janis's does Cady skip in Mean Girls (2004) so she can throw a house party instead?

Her art show goes on without Cady, who lies that she is away with her parents. Janis and Damian turn up at the party to say she has become as fake as she pretended to be.

At her house party in Mean Girls (2004), what does a drunk Cady accidentally do to Aaron?

She vomits on him moments after a drunken confession goes badly. Aaron walks out, saying she has become as manipulative as Regina.

A closing joke in Mean Girls (2004) hints Regina misheard which heritage of Janis's as 'lesbian'?

Lebanese is the punchline that finally explains the rumor that wrecked the two girls' friendship. The later movie musical drops the gag and makes Janis Polynesian.

The actress who plays Karen in Mean Girls (2004) later played bride Sophie in which movie musical?

Four years after her film debut in Mean Girls she led the ABBA hit Mamma Mia! She had planned to study at Fordham until the part of Karen came along.

The director of Mean Girls (2004) is the brother of the writer of which 1980s teen comedy?

Heathers came from the director's older brother, who as a teen wrote a newspaper column of made-up stories about real classmates. Both films skewer a school's ruling clique.

One awed rumor in Mean Girls (2004) says Regina appears in car commercials in which country?

Japan is where the rumor places her adverts, one of several tall tales classmates trade. Others credit her with two Fendi purses and a silver Lexus.

Mean Girls' Gretchen is played by the actress who grew up on screen as Claudia in which 1990s drama?

Party of Five ran for six seasons from 1994. She also voiced Meg Griffin in Family Guy's first season before Mila Kunis took over.

Which sitcom actor plays Cady Heron's father, Chip, in Mean Girls (2004)?

Neil Flynn was already menacing interns as the Janitor on Scrubs when he took the small role. He later played another dad, Mike Heck, on The Middle.

Which ex-secretary of state tweeted the Mean Girls GIF 'Why are you so obsessed with me?' in 2019?

Hillary Clinton's post went viral because it was read as a reply to Donald Trump. Her 2016 campaign had already compared him to Regina in an ad.

Which Saturday Night Live alum plays Cady's mother, Betsy Heron, in Mean Girls (2004)?

Ana Gasteyer had left the sketch show only two years earlier, after six seasons. She was one of four veterans of its cast to appear in the film.

In which city did the Mean Girls musical premiere on Halloween 2017, months before reaching Broadway?

The National Theatre in Washington, D.C., hosted the tryout from October 31, 2017. The show moved to New York the following spring.

Mean Girls tied for the most nominations at the 72nd Tony Awards but lost Best Musical to which show?

The Band's Visit won ten Tonys that night, including Best Musical. SpongeBob SquarePants was the other show to match the Mean Girls nomination haul.

Which MTV Movie Award did the four actresses behind Cady and the Plastics share for Mean Girls?

Best On-Screen Team went to the quartet in 2005, when the film's lead also won Best Female Performance. Regina's actress took the breakthrough prize the same night.

Which country's US embassy answered a tweet by Iran's Ali Khamenei with a Mean Girls GIF?

Israel's embassy replied with Regina asking why he was so obsessed with her, after Khamenei called the country a cancerous tumor. The post drew over 25,000 retweets.

Which sitcom star was due to lead Mean Moms, a shelved film from the author who inspired Mean Girls?

Jennifer Aniston was lined up for the New Line film, due in May 2015 with Beth McCarthy-Miller directing. The studio pulled it from the schedule a year before release.

Which classic picture-book line published a Mean Girls retelling twenty years after the film came out?

Little Golden Books added the film to its picture-book range, following a 2017 novelization and a 2020 graphic novel set in senior year.

Regina's actress prepared for Mean Girls (2004) by watching Alec Baldwin's character in which film?

Glengarry Glen Ross was her homework because she saw Regina as a really angry kid who had no boundaries or guidance. The director said her audition dominated the room.

Which former Nickelodeon star plays Cady in the Mean Girls scenes of the 'Thank U, Next' music video?

Elizabeth Gillies stepped into the lead for the parody, with two members of the original film's cast appearing alongside her. The video also sends up Bring It On and Legally Blonde.

Which actor at first turned down Aaron in the Mean Girls movie musical because he would have to sing?

Christopher Briney said yes only once his character's songs were cut from the script. He was already known as Conrad in The Summer I Turned Pretty.

Which part of Regina's body is fractured in the accident near the end of Mean Girls (2004)?

Her spine has fully healed by senior year, when Regina joins a school team to channel her anger. Rumor had it that Cady pushed her.

Where does Regina dump copied pages of the Plastics' insult scrapbook in Mean Girls (2004)?

The school hallways fill with pages after Regina slips in an insult about herself, so that others take the blame. A riot among the junior girls follows.

Which critic called Mean Girls 'a smart and funny one' amid 'a wasteland of dumb movies about teenagers'?

Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four in the Chicago Sun-Times. He added that teachers have feelings, and that you'll be happier as yourself than as anybody else.

Which actress referenced Mean Girls on winning Favorite Movie Actress at the 2013 People's Choice Awards?

Jennifer Lawrence nodded to the film from the podium, nine years after its release. The same year a Tumblr matched its lines to stills from Les Misérables.

Introducing the Plastics in Mean Girls (2004), Damian recalls Karen asking him how to spell which word?

Orange stumped Karen in English class, where Damian sat beside her. Janis sums her up as one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet.

Which Dawson's Creek alum plays Regina's mother in the Mean Girls movie musical?

Busy Philipps took over the part for the remake. She is also known as Laurie Keller in the sitcom Cougar Town.

In Mean Girls 2, Jo Mitchell challenges Mandi's clique to settle their feud with which game?

Flag football decides it: the self-styled Anti-Plastics win, just as texted video clears Jo of stealing charity money. Mandi ends the film doing community service.

Which journalist moderated the Mean Girls cast's 2020 virtual reunion, held to encourage voting?

Katie Couric hosted the first gathering of the entire cast since the 2004 premiere. It was organized with HeadCount ahead of that year's presidential election.

Which song does Regina sing in the Mean Girls stage musical while turning the school against itself?

World Burn comes in Act 2, as she spreads her clique's written insults and watches the junior girls turn on each other.

Regina ended her friendship with Janis in Mean Girls (2004) by not inviting her to which event?

A pool party for her birthday went ahead without Janis, and Regina's stated reason started a rumor. Janis left school for a while and came back with a new look.

Regina is two-timing Aaron with which classmate in Mean Girls (2004), played by Diego Klattenhoff?

Shane Oman is the jock whose name finally reaches Aaron, ending the romance. His actor later played FBI agent Donald Ressler on The Blacklist.

In Janis's rundown of cafeteria cliques in Mean Girls (2004), which group is tagged 'sexually active'?

Band Geeks get the cheekiest label on a list that also covers Desperate Wannabes and Girls Who Eat Their Feelings. Janis saves her real warning for Regina's table.

Asked by Cady what she is good at in Mean Girls (2004), Karen says she can fit what in her mouth?

Her whole fist is the talent Karen offers after admitting she is failing almost everything. Cady politely declines the demonstration.

Which actress was heavily favored, alongside Kat Dennings, to play Janis in Mean Girls (2004)?

America Ferrera was a front-runner, but the role went to an actress first thought too beautiful for it. The director had pictured a Kelly Osbourne type.

Which Spider-Man trilogy actor was considered for Aaron in Mean Girls (2004) before a late recasting?

James Franco was an early idea for the heartthrob. The actor first hired was fired, and his replacement arrived at the last minute.

Which Lord of the Rings actor bet Ireland's leader '50 quid' to quote Mean Girls in his next speech?

Sean Astin, also of The Goonies, issued the dare in 2020. The Taoiseach obliged by slipping one of the film's lines into a lockdown briefing.

Which song introducing Cady in the Mean Girls stage musical was replaced by 'What Ifs' in the movie version?

It Roars was one of fourteen stage songs dropped for the screen. Its replacement was co-written with the composer and lyricist by one of the film's cast.

Which rival does Cady beat in the tiebreaker of the state math championship in Mean Girls (2004)?

Caroline Krafft loses the deciding round, handing the title to Cady's team. Cady had joined the squad only to earn extra credit after her punishment.

The actor behind Mean Girls' rapping math whiz wrote a memoir about chasing the lead in which film?

Life of Pi consumed six years of Rajiv Surendra's life: he learned to swim and travelled to Pondicherry before the part went to someone else. His book is The Elephants in My Backyard.

For Mean Girls, Lindsay Lohan won a 2004 Teen Choice Award in which oddly specific category?

Choice Movie Blush was one of her three Teen Choice wins for the film. She lost Choice Movie Liar the same night.